Showing posts with label Robert Bly. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Robert Bly. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Brief excerpt

This brief excerpt from a poem by Robert Bly seems especially appropriate as spring is awakening the trees.

We did not come to remain whole.

We came to lose our leaves like the trees,

The trees that are broken

And start again, drawing up from the great roots.